Detect when player attacks another player

I would like to detect when a player attacks/hits/hurts another player or entity. I have tried to use the AttackTime tag, but it doesn't work. Here is what I have tried (on a 20HZ clock):

First command block:

scoreboard players set @a Attack 0 {AttackTime:0s}

Second command block:

scoreboard players set @a Attack 1 {AttackTime:1s}

Third command block:

tellraw @a[score_Attack_min=1] "Nice shot!"

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Best Answer

This answer is based on @CommandFox's answer and my own (totally awful) idea for a solution. However, I found that combination of the two adds a possible limitation to hurting specific entities.

First, create two scoreboard objectives: didDamage and hurtTime

scoreboard objectives add didDamage stat.damageDealt
scoreboard objectives add hurtTime dummy

Then, create a fill clock and run the following commands:

scoreboard players add @e hurtTime 1 
scoreboard players set @e hurtTime 0 {HurtTime:0s}

execute @e[score_hurtTime_min=1,score_hurtTime=1] ~ ~ ~ tellraw @a[score_didDamage=1] "Nice hit!"
scoreboard player set @a didDamage 0

So far, we have gained nothing by using the hurtTime objective. The main benefit of it is that it can be limited using its target selector. For example, using

scoreboard players add @e[type=Zombie] hurtTime 1 
scoreboard players set @e[type=Zombie] hurtTime 0 {HurtTime:0s}

makes it so that the message only appears when you actually hit a zombie. Using multiples of this command block pair makes it possible to select multiple entities.

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